Emendation of the description of Blastomonas natatoria (Sly 1985) Sly and Cahill 1997 as an aerobic photosynthetic bacterium and reclassification of Erythromonas ursincola Yurkov et al. 1997 as Blastomonas ursincola comb. nov.

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Photosynthetic properties of Blastomonas natatoria (Sly 1985) Sly and Cahill 1997, which had been recognized as being non-photosynthetic, were examined and compared with those of its close relative, the aerobic photosynthetic bacterium, Erythromonas ursincola Yurkov et al. 1997. HPLC experiments demonstrated that bacteriochlorophyll a was present in a detectable amount in the lipid extract from B. natatoria DSM...

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